{"id":4428,"date":"2016-03-17T12:45:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T16:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=4428"},"modified":"2016-03-17T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T17:00:10","slug":"no-taxpayer-giveaways-to-video-game-makers-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/17\/no-taxpayer-giveaways-to-video-game-makers-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"No Taxpayer Giveaways to Video Game Makers This Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>H.2487 and H.2606,\u00a0which<span>\u00a0would have extended the film tax credit to video game companies, is dead. \u00a0The Massachusetts Joint Committee on Revenue voted to send the bills to study and not consider them this session. \u00a0A big thank you to everyone who signed our petition and spoke in opposition to these bills.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>No doubt these bills\u00a0will be brought up in the next session and with the $170+ million GE subsidy this year, it is clear the legislature is still eager to use\u00a0our tax dollars to line the pockets of corporations. \u00a0While\u00a0we can rejoice in the part we played in saving Massachusetts $50 million dollars a year, it is clear that <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/forms\/support-the-pirate-party\">Massachusetts needs Pirates to step up and run for the Massachusetts legislature<\/a>. \u00a0Massachusetts is counting on you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H.2487 and H.2606,\u00a0which\u00a0would have extended the film tax credit to video game companies, is dead. \u00a0The Massachusetts Joint Committee on Revenue voted to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate-welfare","category-slider"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/pacmanEatingDollarsBanner.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-19q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4430,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions\/4430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}